Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone is celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow around a table full of turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. I'm celebrating the holiday with a cold. Thankfully I have a lot of time to get over it. There will be very few people on the floor over the next few days, so I'll be able to sleep it off without becoming involved with what my friends are doing.

As for my Thanksgiving plans, I'm probably going to go over to a friend's apartment with a couple of other people who decided to spend Thanksgiving on campus, too. I'm not sure if we'll be brave enough to cook a turkey, but at least we can have a potluck and spend time together.

Last weekend's competition in Ohio was alright. Andrey and I received four callbacks, including two in tango which got us into the quarter final round. We may have received more callbacks if we had made it to the first morning of dances, but we got to the site late and the schedule had been changed, so our dances came earlier than we expected. In the future we plan to get to the dance floor on time.

The best part of the competition was the professional dances. I sat in the balcony to watch the professional championship competition and various exhibitions. Those dancers can do some amazing moves. I even had the opportunity to watch a three-time championship winning Latin couple. Their show was incredible.

First Snow of the Year

It's snowing outside! I literally ran out of my dorm when I looked out of the window. Walking to my calculus exam, however, I discovered the disadvantages of going to a school built from a gorge (which is where the name "the Cut" comes from). Not only is it cold, it's very windy, too.

Luckily it's supposed to be warmer in Columbus, Ohio, where I will be spending my weekend at a dance competition.

Spring 08

Today was freshman registration for second semester classes. I was extremely fortunate with my schedule. Although I was only allowed to register at 11:30am, which was about halfway through the day, none of my classes are waitlisted, which is extremely convenient. Anyway, a link to my schedule can be found here. There is only one class missing, 21-259 which is Calculus in 3-D. I won't be able to register for it until December, when grades are released and I prove that I can take on more units.

Busy Weeks

I was walking back from the UC today with my lunch when it started snowing. Yes, that's right. We got our first snow today. Everyone's really excited, but it's hanging in the back of everyone's mind that within a month and a half it'll be too cold to even snow.

These past few weeks have been very, very busy. My RA told me at the beginning of the semester that the workload at CMU follows a four-week cycle: for two weeks there will be little work, for the next two your head won't remember the feeling of your pillow. Last week was by far my worst week of the semester as yet, but it was also the third bad week in a row. The forecast for this week is only slightly better.

This past weekend was my second ballroom competition. It went much better compared to the first one (which I never wrote about; like said, I was very busy this week). Andrey and I received 9 callbacks total, and made it to quarter finals in standard waltz and tango and octa-finals in international Latin cha-cha. We're pretty happy with those results, except that despite practicing rumba for hours a week we didn't get a callback in it. Hopefully we'll be able to pull through at the next competition which will be in Ohio the weekend after next.